After 41 years of wandering, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah breaks ground on a new synagogue in midtown Manhattan.

NEW YORK – In 1973, an ad was placed in The Village Voice calling for gay Jews to meet for Friday night services. Eleven men and a Christian woman named Mary showed up at the basement of the Church of the Holy Apostles, in Chelsea. Saul Mizrahi was one of them.

The rabbis of the Talmud describe the worst sin of Sodom with a parable.
When strangers were passing through Sodom looking for a place to stay,
they would be shown to a bed; if they were too short, they were
stretched until they fit perfectly and if they were too tall their feet
were cut off to make them fit. In the eyes of our rabbis, the gravest
sin of Sodom was being inhospitable